From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 8:28:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12F1C37B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 08:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-63-202-184-167.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO yahoo.com) (63.202.184.167) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 2001 15:28:07 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3BD43B14.82E5AAF2@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 08:28:20 -0700 From: seth X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X/GNOME/Port upgrade/Dist upgrade References: <3BD3BD10.D3048709@yahoo.com> <20011022074955.4af81dbe.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Configuring CVSUP is not that hard, you can stick an entry in your crontab so it runs automatically, say once a week. At that point, the pkg_version -v command becomes useful to see if newer versions are available, and then the pkg_version -c will give you the commands to do the upgrade. > > Be warned though that mucking with parts of GNOME can actually create havoc. Anytime I've tried to upgrade main components of GNOME it completely broke it beyond repair. After falling into that trap twice, deleting all ports and trying to rebuild, I gave up and installed KDE from packages and whatever versions I have is what I'm staying with. So are you suggesting that KDE is far more stable than GNOME? --thanks for all the other info. It is very usefull.. I"ll post results when I'm finished. - _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message